Cellular Automata and Condensed Matter Physics

Abstract

Cellular automata are mathematical models for systems containing many identical components with local interactions. These notes describe some of their properties, and discuss applications to condensed matter physics.

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Work supported in part by the U.S. Office of Naval Research under contract number N00014-85-K-0045. Based on lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on “Scaling Phenomena in Disordered Systems”, Geilo, Norway, April 8–19, 1985.